Quotes from Salt Bae

Meat has become a passion for me.

I've become a brand.

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

In New York, there are many steakhouses. We would like to show that Nusr-et is different than the others in service, meat quality, and connection with the customers.

I eat a protein-heavy diet.

Being tired isn't anything. What's important is the mind. The body being tired isn't important. You can get over the body being tired by resting for a half-hour or an hour. What's important is whether the mind is tired.

My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.

I'm the happiest man in the world.

I am the son of a mine worker.

Sunday morning, I wake up at, like, 6 or 6:30 to go to the gym. I drink a glass of water, and then, before I start my workout, I drink a cup of coffee.

In the morning after my workout, I eat egg whites, very little toasted bread, cheese, tomatoes.

My new hometown is America. But I live with my work.

The shape of the meat and the taste of it starting from the top down is a part of me. All of my feelings are coming from inside of the meat down to when I put the salt onto the meat.

Since I was 14, I worked more than 13 hours a day as a kitchen runner for a butcher.

In Turkey, butchering was a low-class, degrading job. Now, thanks to me, all the kids want to become butchers.

I get all of my motivation from my customers.

New York City is the center of the world. There is an energy here. People from all over the world feel at home here.

I eat oatmeal a lot, before I work out or after.

Without much money, I traveled to Argentina to see the meat industry, and after that, I wanted to travel to the United States, but I was refused a visa 5 or 6 times, but I never gave up.